There's now just over 24 hours til check in time!! Yes, it is tomorrow that I fly off to Cyprus! I'm very excited, my suitcase is packed, and all is good!

My suitcase is very heavy - but more than half of it is filled with presents for my family in Cyprus! So, it's really not my fault that it's so full & heavy...

I'm still trying to improve my Turkish...I'm not doing too well, but in August, being the fool that I am, I made a bet with my uncle that by the time I went back - ie tomorrow!!! - I'd be able to talk in Turkish. This bet is VERY important to both of us...It rides on personal pride...So, humiliation for the losing party, especially if it's me!

I will be glad to get away from home, & I don't get back until the 21st, so then it's only a couple of days til I go back to Exeter! Yay!!!

It will be very weird being in Cyprus over Easter - they don't have it! Being Muslim, it's obviously not something they celebrate...So, I'm going to be in school for the whole of Holy Week...Ah well, I suppose that even here, kids don't always get the WHOLE of Holy Week off school any more - I certainly didn't! So, it might not be quite so weird after all.

It will be a bit strange being in school 5 days a week though, & I will have to get up very early; they start school at 8am - & since I'm teaching, I'll have to be there at about 7:30am...The other thing is, I have to get a bus there in the morning...So, lots of early mornings for me, then! It's not all bad though...They may start school early, but they also finish early; my working day finishes at 1pm!! So, I have all of my afternoons to myself, and can explore! Should be great...I'm really looking forward to going to Salamis!

I think though, that the 3 weeks in Cyprus may be 3 weeks without the internet...So, that may also be 3 weeks without blogging...Very sad, I know...But, I will try to access the internet somewhere so that I can blog! Do not despair, my friends!

Well, I've been home for the WHOLE weekend...I'm really holding onto the fact that I only have a week left before I go to Cyprus.

I got back home on Friday, & my parents did take me out to eat, which was quite nice. On Saturday, I escaped by going into the nearest town (10 miles & 40 minutes on a bus), & then in the evening, I worked...I worked in an Off Licence here when I was in Upper 6th, & they're short staffed, so as well as getting me money, working there also gets me out of the house for an evening...

Yesterday was obviously Mothers' Day...Went to Church in the morning; the new priest is nice, he's a bit older than the last one...It was sort of weird going to Church here & there being a priest I'd never met before! It was a bit of the shock to the system in more ways than one...The priest is a lot calmer & quieter than Paul, & Church here has pews & everything...I don't even take my shoes off as soon as I walk in!!!!

We went out for lunch yesterday; we had a Meze meal (a huge selection of Turkish & Greek food that everyone shares. Starters are things like Houmous, Taramasalata, Imambayaldi, Cacik, Black Eyed Bean Salad, deep fried courgettes...Main course is stuff like Pastorma, Beef Stefado, Savory Potatoes, Kofte, Shish Kebab...It's great!

I now officially have approval from the Minister of Education in Northern Cyprus to go into schools there for two weeks, but I'm not allowed to go into my uncle's school!!! The Ministry decided I would be of more use elsewhere, so I have to go into schools totally on my own...Which means getting there on my own every day, etc! I'm a bit nervous about it - my Turkish really isn't that great...But I'm also really VERY excited!

argh! there's only about 48 hours left til I go home!!! i don't really want to go, but i guess i have to. also, there are only 10 days between me getting back & going to cyprus, & i'm there for 3 weeks, so it should be ok. when i get back from cyprus, there's only a week before the start of term, so i might go home for a few days & then come back here a bit early.

i think the doctor now knows how much i dislike going home...i had a bad day on friday, & so my appointment with her was brought forward to yesterday...some of her 1st words were "you really don't like going home, do you?"! she thinks i'm doing really well though, and will survive the 5 weeks away. saw penny yesterday too, & she was great; she knows i don't like going home - she also knows a lot more of the whys than most people; so, we were talking about how i'm going to cope for 5 weeks!

i got up nice & early this morning, but have still done no work on my essays today...oh well...i'll do some later...they both have to be in on friday. the one on plato's 'symposium' is going pretty well...have done lots of reading & everything. i think (& hope) that it should be a good essay; in my other essay for that module, i got 76%, so another good mark would go down very well!!!

i only have 3 exams in june, so you would have thought that they would be on 3 different days, wouldn't you? well, if you thought that, you would be wrong!!! i have a classics one on the 8th of june, in the morning, so that will be 3hrs 45mins with my extra time; i have my theology one on the morning of the 11th of june, which will be 2hrs 30mins; my other classics one is on the afternoon of 11th of june, so another 3hrs 45mins...talk about torture!!! i hate having to sit still at the best of times, but over 6hrs in one day?!!!!!! argh!!

tis the last cathsoc of term tonight, & therefore, my last cathsoc meeting as president! i don't know whether to be slightly sad, or to cheer...both seem rather appropriate!

hmmm; well, i suppose i'd better crack on with these essays...

more from the land of me tomorrow!

Hehe - I'm feeling quite obliged to blog now, as i have paz & joz reading my blog...

i have done some reading of stuff for my classics essays - obscenity is great!! it's soooo funny... also been reading about luuuuurve for my plato essay.

have been a busy lil bunny!

i got my report thing from the disbility resource centre today...it has a gggreat big list of all the things i need - there's looooads of it...

can't believe it's so near the end of term... :(

Well, it's kinda cool to know ppl other than zosh & james read my blog - thanks joz!!!

Today, I have done no work...I went to see Gondaleas - I knew 3 ppl in it! It was quite funny to watch them prancing around the stage!

This evening, though, I do have to do some essay work...But, by the end of this week, I will only have one more essay to do this academic year! How exciting!

This time next week, I will be at home in Warwickshire...Plans have changed slightly, as I remembered it's Mother's Day on the 21st, & my mum & grandma'd quite like me to be there then...So, I'm going home on Friday.

I'll be at home for 8 days, & then I'm off to Cyprus!!! Yay! For a whole 3 weeks! I will b teaching for 2 of them, but it's an exciting place to be teaching!

Well, I'd better go & book my train ticket home, & then get on with my essay...Joy!

1 essay down, 2 to go before the end of term!!! I'm proud of me!!!! Yay!

Well, the time has come for another blog installment.

I have just left about 4 comments on Zosh's blog. She has been very popular - James left about 4 comments too. Bec now has to leave another one, as she has only done 3!! Hers aren't as long as mine & James' either.

Well, yesterday, I had my needs' assessment...I should be getting a new computer, one that reads to me, & has a big screen, so that I can actually see what I'm typing - unlike now!!! & a scanner, & a printer, & an allowance for yellow paper! yay! And that's among other stuff.

I'm slightly worried because my eyesight is getting worse - now, even with my glasses, I don't see too well... Ah well, in abot 6 or 7 weeks, I should have an appointment with a clever eye guy in Oxford!

I went to the Leeds CU when I was in Leeds (surprising that I was in Leeds when I went to the Leeds CU, isn't it?!); it was very CUish. They were all sharing touching little stories about them, so I shared a less touching one about me. It made them all sit down...Ah well...the influence I have!!!

I have an essay deadline tomorrow. I guess I should go & write it.

Well, I said that I'd be a better blogger, and then my internet broke. That left me with no way to check my emails, or blog because only MY computer gets big writing on it.

I now don't know what the DJ has said in about the past 4 days, since while the internet was dead, the webmaster decided to steal my whole inbox, because it was too big. So, I can't get it back until the 13th of March. Not helpful.

tonight was cool, but Karen wasn't there! SHOCKING!!!! It was fun tho!

I'm going to Cyprus in 3 weeks. I'm going from the 29th of March until the 21st of April.

I have lots of letters to write. I'm also very tired today. I might go to bed now.

Well, I've been having some scarily intimidating emails from the dj we booked & cancelled for the CathSoc formal, but I think it's just because he knows he can't win. Now he's turned it into a personal vendetta and is threatening to take ME to court - not CathSoc, but ME!!!!!!! I told him he has little chance of winning if he does. For a start, it will cost him more to try to take me to court than he will get if he wins. I wish he would get it through his thick skull that I am a student, and so live on borrowed money, and have no assets. Any way, if he did try, I could probably get a lot of bad publicity in local press! :-) We'll see how much he likes that one.

I have a cold. I keep sneezing. I also had a really hard counselling session today - used about half a box of tissues! It's not good. Karen has promised that I will be cheered up tonight though!!! :-)

On Friday, I am going to Leeds. Looking forward to it sooooooo much!!!!! It's v exciting! Not coming back til Monday, but think I will have to talk nicely to Virgin, as I have to be somewhere on Monday evening rather than Tuesday, so I will have to get an earlier train back!!! GRR